Mike Sheil was an award winning photographer who worked in over 60 countries around the world for such clients as the British Council, CBS-TV, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Euopean Commission, National Geographic, ‘Time’, Rio Tinto and Shell.

In 2001 he received a World Press Photo award for his work on child trafficking in west Africa and between 2013 and 2018 his exhibition ‘Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace’, marking the centenary of the First World War, was viewed by over 12m. people in nine different countries.

For the past 17 years he has been an ambulance service Community First Responder which has made him very aware of the health problems caused by modern life-style and the extent to which as individuals we can influence our future health.

Having experienced both emergency heart bypass surgery and prostate cancer he is a passionate supporter of the NHS and anxious to raise awareness of how often our ill health can be the result of our failure to heed warnings and ignore symptoms until the matter has become serious.